Marvel releases first ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ trailer after it leaks online

It’s here, and it’s glorious.

Choose a cellular data plan with your Apple SIM installed:

When you choose AT&T on iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3, AT&T dedicates Apple SIM to their network only.

Yosemite and Default URL Handlers – Edovia Blog:

Unfortunately, Apple is now blocking sandboxed apps to change the default handler for a particular URL scheme. This is why Screens is not able to set Screen Sharing back as the default handler. This change affects a whole bunch of apps that use to rely on this functionality.

The sandboxing rules on OS X have always been a source of difficulty, as some cautioned early on. At the time I felt that Apple would see the harsh edges and work something out with developers so that more useful apps could be in the MAS over time. I thought that perhaps they’d sort it out to the level that even top-tier folks would manage to get their apps in there (think Photoshop or Office).

Oh pip. Every time I think you can’t do it, I realize I haven’t updated lately.

Update pip with pip install -U pip and then you can do this:

$ pip list --outdated
cffi (Current: 0.8.2 Latest: 0.8.6)
Glances (Current: 2.0.1 Latest: 2.1.2)
Jinja2 (Current: 2.7.2 Latest: 2.7.3)
jira-cli (Current: 0.4.2 Latest: 2.0.1)
…

Note the output has the package all by itself at the start of the line. The Unix geek in me salivated at that because it lends itself nicely to:

The certificate is invalid because either they or Akamai are experimenting with self-signed certs on the CDN. To fix it, open https://devimages.apple.com in Safari and choose to trust the certificate.

What gets me the most though? “Would you like to connect to the server anyway?” has one choice: “OK” — which then cancels instead.

This Wouldn’t Have Happened Under Steve (Except Yes, It Would).

Notably absent from the list of changes in iOS 8.1 is a fix for the Reset All Settings Including iCloud Drive Data bug.

Whoops.

I can imagine what they did, and it’s kind of funny. You reset all settings, that deletes the files, the device is bound to iCloud even after the reboot (activation lock!) and then on first boot the sync gadget says “Oh hey, no files.” and promptly … syncs that.

A Day of Programming:

Sometimes days are like this:

In my experience, a lot of days are like that.

Can I use an XML-RPC client with Squarespace? — Help and Customer Care - Squarespace:

Squarespace doesn't support editing via XML-RPC.

Strike that one off the list of places to try.

Behind OS X’s modern face lies an aging collection of Unix tools:

The results were interesting, to say the least—many of the core Unix utilities in OS X are years and multiple versions behind their open source, er, sources. You can thank GPL v3 for that, as noted above (and covered in more detail below).

Michael Tsai has a great collection of quotes about Apple’s sunsetting practices. As quoting a list of quotes is a bit meta, go read it.